The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-04
The Summer Resort of the
Far South.
A VIEW AT KENT'S LAKE
Puffer Observation-Disclosures and
Ream's Raneh-star District-Rafl-
way RumOrs-Etc.
Correspondence of THE HERALD:

| terQay, TO FURNISH 8 lew mOEo lbcuS VI
interest to Southern Utoniens, will be-
gin by Earrating a trip to the noun
tains east of Beaver.
A small party of US, numbering thir-
teen, children included, left Beaver last
Friday week for the future health and
pleasure resort of that section, having
been induced to visit it by parties who
had been there and who spoke of it in
glowing terms. The spot is lovely
one, and is named after its owner
Kent Farnsworth-Kent's Lake. It
embraces large tract OF excellent graz
ing and timber land, and an artificial
lake over 600 yards long by 400 wide,
with a precipitous, quaking- asp and
pine-covered mountain for back
ground to the south, and to the north q
clearing, on which Kent" has built a
four-roomed house and partially Guilt
waited, there being carrots, turnips, DO
tatoes, radishes, lettuce and other gar
den truck, and large piece in barley,
well developed, stretching westward
from the dwelling. A couple of boats
have been built, and visitors enj oy
themselves by rowing and shooting the
ducks and mud hens, of which there are
quite number On the lake.
The new resort will undoubtedly be-
come popular, but before it does, con-
siderable means will have to be ex.
pended upon the road over the noun
tains. 1t is Mr.. Farnsworth's calcula-
ton, believe, to make a number of i'm
provements on his place before next
summer, and throw it open to pleasure
parties and those seeking health in the
tops of the hills, put a couple of convey
ances on the road to transport visitors to
and fro, and maintain Kent's Lake as a
summer resort. and he can do it.
| / intimated that the road was hard
one. To that class of citizens who leave
home for an outing in the mountains
and have not been accustomed to rough
ing it, it is very hard road, and at
times appears dangerous. Yet, after
| the trip is ACCOMPLISHED, and while en-
route, the grandeur of the scenery re-
pays the traveller for the exel ton he
! may make in descending and ascending
the long, steep hills between Kent's
Lake and Beaver. At the summit of the
first divide on the way up, there is a
view which cannot be surpassed for
majestic magnifcence in the country.
Looking down over the edge of the dug
way, many thousand feet, the sight is
even more dizzy and ave inspiring than
that presented at Cape Horn, on
the Sierras Nevada, while to the left,
over the tops of the lower hills,
the Valley of the Beaver stretches out
to the hills which border it on the west,
and the green pastures and yellow
| fields form patchwork that is beauti-
full. Looking straight ahead, Old Badly
| rears his towering form, and the dark,
timber-covered range which recedes
| from him eastward and to the head
waters of the Beaver river, with that
stream flowing along the gulleys, ra-
vines and crevices at its base. furnish
picture to gaze upon which almost en-
frances the beholder.
At the foot of the immense dugway,
with endless timber on all sides, are the
remains of what once was fourishing
sawmill and rancho, but the hardy
woodsmsn had found a more lucrative
field for his labor, and had moved on to
the next best place in ravine higher
up, and was there engaged in turning
out lumber and shingles in large
quantities. 1t was remarked, and
truthfully, too, that if ever the coal
fields collapsed, there was enough tim
Der in those mountains to furnish fuel
for the world during its existence.
While on the way to Kent's Lake,
We were overtaken by a mountain
by one of the numerous springs which
bubble forth from the hillsides. Our
experience for short time was awful.
The vivid flashes of lightning, the
deafening peals of thunder, the down
pour of rain and the pelting of hail,
combined to make the evening one of
terror and damp discomfort. But, like
all storms, it was followed by q calm,
and in few hours, after building
huge log fire and drying our bedding
and clothing and pitching the tent on
higher ground, we passed the remainder
of the night in comparative comfort.
There is fishing a few miles fl ON the
new resort, and Experienced anglers
go out and in few hours
return with good strings of
speckled beauties. There are also
places of interest around about,
which are reached on horseback, one of
which is Puffer Lake, about eight or ten
miles to the northward, and which is
described as being the prettiest spot in
the mountains. 1t is at present mac
cessible to wagons. Then there are
several QUIET SIHall lakes, nearer QaQO,
and beautiful pastures and meadows
for the ramblers to stroll to and
drink in the sublime draughts which
Nature has scattered with lavish hand
everywhere thereabout.
Among the many evidences of good
taste and excellent judgment to be seen
exhibited by the agriculturists and
stock raisers is the improvement in
their cattle and horses, as compared |
with ten or a dozen years since. In
place of the scrub bulls and cows and |
mustangs and plug ponies of decade |
ago, breeds of excellent dairy animals |
have been introduced and the Durham,
the Hereford and the Polled Angus are |
to be seen in many places.
While at Minersville Mr.. Thomas
Jones, of that place, invited me to take
a drive over to Hay Springs, twelve
miles distant, where the ranch of the |
Ryan Brothers and Mr.. Ream, of Chi
cage, is located, a perfect oasis in the |
desert, occupying 400 acres. Here are
kept hundreds of excellent cattle and
fine stable of horses. Here also, in
charge of the reliable, old trainer,
Uncle Bob Branton, who thoroughly
understands his business and is well
SHOWN to Utah horse men, is the pretti-
est stallion ever clapped eyes on, He